ArmInfo. Today, the National Assembly of Armenia paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the 27 October 1999 act of terrorism in the parliament. Earlier today, the parliamentarians laid flowers to the memorial for their killed colleagues. To recall, the Armenian parliament shooting, commonly known in Armenia as October 27 was a terrorist attack on the Armenian National Assembly in the capital Yerevan on October 27, 1999, by a group of five armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan that, among others, killed the two de facto decision-makers in the country's political leadership - Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan. Sargsyan and Demirchyan were posthumously honored with National Hero of Armenia titles. The murderers also shot dead Yuri Bakhshyan, Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Ruben Miroyan, Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Leonard Petrosyan, Minister of Urgent Affairs, MPs Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan, Mikayel Kotanyan.
The five men were charged with terrorism aimed at undermining authority on 29 October. The five main perpetrators of the shooting (Nairi Hunanyan, his younger brother Karen Hunanyan, their uncle Vram Galstyan, Derenik Ejanyan and Eduard Grigoryan) were sentenced to life in prison on December 2, 2003.